MLS/CCL Wednesday: Your Running Commentary

MLS/CCL Wednesday: Your Running Commentary

A ferocious rivalry. An emotional return. A hot team on the playoff hunt. CONCACAF Champions League revenge. It's all on the docket Wednesday night.

D.C. United and the New York Red Bulls meet in the rubber match of this year's Atlantic Cup, with United looking to creep up to third place in the Eastern Conference, while New York eyes the top spot and can leapfrog Sporting Kansas City for first place with a win. In New England, Shalrie Joseph returns to Gillette Stadium for the first time since the trade that shipped him to Chivas USA in a meeting of teams that combined to concede 10 goals over the weekend.

The Columbus Crew look to remain hot behind the new strike tandem of Federico Higuain and Jairo Arrieta as they take on the Philadelphia Union, while the Los Angeles Galaxy meet the Puerto Rico Islanders in a CCL group match, eyeing revenge for the 2010 preliminary round elimination at the hands of the NASL club.

Henry gave a big shoulder shrug when his teammate didn’t score off his over the shoulder pass. Trying to understand why he felt the need to shrug. His teammate got a good shot off but Hamid made a nice save.

That is where we disagree. To me that wasn’t a very good shot at all from that range with no pressure. I think McCarty is having a great season but the goalie merely had to fall to his right to make the save.

I’m impressed by what complete players the young DC guys are — Kitchen, Hamid, and especially Najar. They have stuff to improve on. (For instance, Kitchen could shoot from distance.) But the holes in their games are relatively small ones.

Gaudette sucks. He has no positioning, and no reflexes. I guess he has the bald thing going, but beyond that, he’s worthless. He has killed this game. Red Bulls playing beautifully, and he lets in two absolutely weak goals. Fücking horrible.

Its good to see our younger players taking it to PR. Definetly the more active team, controlling the game.

Every now and then I watch the Galaxy and see a bunch of old guys, complaining to the refs a little too much and not running quite hard enough… so its good to watch the young guys play with all that energy.

nice left footed finish in the upper corner from Mcbean off a Stephens cross!